...High Scope Curriculum Philosophy: Developmentally Appropriate Practice helps a child to develop their cognitive skills which are needed to succeed in K-12 school system during the early childhood years. This curriculum focuses on development of the whole child. Children learn through hands-on experiences of materials and the events. We know that DAP takes into account the individual interest of each child. In this curriculum, teacher sits with a group of children each day at the beginning of the class and encourages children to plan their own activities. Children chose and change activity throughout the different activity centers within the classroom according to their interest. Then after the children are done with their activities, teacher...
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...High Scope Curriculum Flora Villalba CHD 411 February 9, 2013 Professor: Ruth Monroe Abstract The highScope curriculum is an early childhood education program for children from birth to 5 and sometimes to 8 years old. This program can be for children with or without special needs and for diverse socioeconomic backgrounds and ethnicities. The program goal is to increase children’s cognitive, socioemotional, and physical development, giving children skills that will help them do well in school and be more constrictive and more responsible in their lives. The curriculum is based on the work of constructivists, such as Jean Piaget, High/scope’s founder David Weikart and others, who believed that children learn best when they build understanding through direct experiences with people and real life objects around them (DeVries and Kohlberg (1987) and Kammi and DeVries (1978) Based upon the fundamental premise that children are active Learners who learn best from activities that they plan and carry out themselves as well as what they hear and see, The classroom is set up into different areas, these are set up in a way that allow children to choose, find, use, and return the materials they use on their own. The High/Scope curriculum uses a procedure called the plan-do-review sequence (Hohmann & Weikart, 1995). Children are encouraged to plan their task and have them carryout their plans and later reflect on what they learned. Children have the opportunity to be involved...
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...PRESCHOOL CLASSROOM Janelle Conlin Early Childhood Curriculum & Methods: ECE311 Instructor: Michael Walter August 10, 2012 PRESCHOOL CLASSROOM Preschool classroom’s fosters an exploratory play environment for children ages four to five to prepare students for private school kindergarten courses and utilizes North Carolina kindergarten standards to develop curriculum. Cumberland County public school system does not have the best reputation for educating students and has created a need for more private schools. Currently, we only offer a preschool program but plan to expand into the elementary school ages. As the new school year approaches I will be redesigning the classroom environment and curriculum by incorporating theories from Reggio Emilia, Creative Curriculum, and High Scope Curriculum along with including state standard activities to cover the main concepts for the core subjects to prepare for Kindergarten. Classroom environment and teaching strategies will incorporate philosophies and theories from Reggio Emilia, Creative Curriculum, High Scope Curriculum, and Piaget’s theory into a comprehensive curriculum design for preschoolers. When developing curriculum it is important for this age group to have several approaches. “Children ages 3–8 benefit from planned, teacher-guided, interactive small-group and large- group experiences” (NAEYC, 2009). “Reggio Emilia programs demonstrate how planning an environment is driven by respect for the rights of the...
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...the HighScope Curriculum has evolved to include the findings of ongoing cognitive-developmental and brain research. David P. Weikart was an American psychologist and founder of the High/Scope Cognitively-Oriented Curriculum, an early childhood education program. Born in 1931, in Ohio. In 1949, David graduated from South High School in Youngstown. In 1953, Weikart graduated from the Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, with a major in psychology and a minor in zoology. While attending college, Weikart worked as a counsellor and a program director at a YMCA camp in Rochester, New York. While teaching English and biology at Canfield High School in Ohio, Weikart began taking courses in education at Youngstown University in the spring of 1956. In the autumn ofthis year, Weikart enrolled in a University of Michigan joint PhD program in Education and Psychology. During his time at the University of Michigan, Weikart met his future wife, Phyllis Saxton. At that time, Phyllis was a master's candidate in the Department of Health and Physical Education. In 1957, David and Phyllis were married in Shelton, Connecticut. In 1957, Weikart began working part-time as a school psychologist for the Public Schools Michigan. At about the same time, Weikart and his wife began working in leadership positions at several summer camps until they founded the High/Scope Camp in 1963. On December 9, 2003, at the age of 72, Weikart passed away during his battle with leukemia. Highscope today High/Scope is an...
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...theory and research. he HighScope Curriculum emphasizes active participatory learning. [ Active learning means students have direct, hands-on experiences with people, objects, events, and ideas. Children's interests and choices are at the heart of the HighScope programs. They construct their own knowledge through interactions with the world and the people around them. In active learning settings, adults expand children's thinking with diverse materials and nurturing interactions.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HighScope 4. If the animal is a staple in the diet of humans, it may have a direct impact on the diet of humans such as if the tuna went extinct. If the animal is not a staple, it may still have an impact due to the fact that it may be a key food source for another animal which is a staple of the human diet. If plankton went extinct, everything that ate them, such as most fish, would then go extinct. Just as if honeybees became instinct, the pollination of our crops and produce would cease. Beyond just eating animals, the extinction of creatures can affect our lives in other ways. A poll by the American Museum of Natural History finds that seven in 10 biologists believe that mass extinction poses a colossal threat to human existence, a more serious environmental problem than even its contributor, global warming; and that the dangers of mass extinction are woefully underestimated by almost everyone outside science I think High/Scope is a reform that should be continued...
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...and partnering with families are important skills to possess for all teachers, caregivers and directors. It is imperative that each teaching style reflect ways that address the variability of situations whether difficult or not. There are many teaching methods and philosophies that aid to avoid difficult situations as they occur. These teaching methods include Montessori, Reggio Emilia approach and the High Scope approach. It is important to have an outline to work with as an effort to help avoid certain situations. As suggested in the assigned outline, I am using the scenario with Lisa. Based on the scenario, Lisa gets frustrated often when trying...
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...Deborah Hawkins Early Child Development Chapters 6-11 Sharon Garrett Models-These are the models that are used for Early Childhood Development 1. Head Start: Empowering for Change from Within 2. The High Scope Foundations: Planning, Implementing, and Reviewing Best Practices 3. The Project Approach: Active Inquiry in Early Childhood 4. The Schools of Reggio Emilia: A Child’s World 5. Montessori Education: Environment, Materials, and Methods 6. Waldorf education: Harmony and the Whole Child Head Start- In 1964 under President Lyndon Johnson Sargent Shriver assembled a committee and put together a group of sociologists, psychologists, and pediatricians to design a system that would assist children to overcome their setbacks or obstacles caused by poverty. Before the name Head Start was establish, the committee had tossed around several different names, e.g., Kiddie Corps, and Bay Corps however the name Head Start was chosen by the academics who understood the achievement gap between middle class students and their lower class peers (Kagan, 2002). President Johnson announced Project Head Start in May of 1965, President Johnson and Mr. Shiver used the (Office of Economic Opportunity) to establish the Head Start program (Kagan, 2002). It started as an eight week summer program for children from low income communities that were going into public school in the fall (Styfco and Zigler, 2003). In the first summer of the Head Start Program it served over...
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...Philosophy of Early Childhood Education The process of educating children begins at a young age in the early childhood program. Children need to be received in a warm inviting classroom in which the social, emotional, physical and cognitive development are a priority and address on a daily basis. Meeting the children’s needs of feeling safe and nurtured at school will facilitate learning to take place. Before students entered the classrooms to be filled with factual knowledge under scripted lessons that were to accommodate all learners. Educating children these days is more like an art that requires the use of creativity and knowledge to consider the student’s needs to prepare the lessons, incorporate personal philosophies, and implement the proper pedagogic strategies to develop children’s academic potential. Being an early childhood teacher is a privilege that requires to be assumed with responsibility as early childhood teachers spend the majority of the day teaching children who’s both parents work to cover the family needs. Children at the Pre K to K start school between the ages of 3-5 depending on the program and school children are attending. For my final paper, I will identify and discuss the theories and/or philosophies that demonstrate how I envision the appropriate classroom to be for the selected age group. I will also provide an overview of the concepts I will teach in each academic area, and share some of the strategies and activities that will be implemented...
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...READINESS OF GRADE IV TEACHERS IN TEACHING K TO 12 CURRICULUM Background of the Study The implementation of the K to 12 education plan in the Philippine Basic Education Curriculum is the key to our nation’s development. Though the government will face many problems in the long run of the implementation of the program, there really is a need to implement it because the enhancement of the quality of our education is very urgent and critical. Teachers will be given sufficient in-service training on content and pedagogy to implement this program. Currently the Deped Grade 4 teachers have been trained to meet the content and performance standards of the enhanced K to 12 Curriculum. Both public and private schools participated on 5 days training thru sending their teachers to be ready and well prepared on the opening of classes. Although the Grade 4 teachers are said to ready for the K to 12 Curriculum, there is another challenging part for them to battle with. It is insufficient teacher’s guide, books and teaching material to facilitate learning process. May be the government take alternative plan to meet the target in implementing the program without suffering the quality of education every learner should get. Statement of the Problem: This study aims to find out the level of readiness of the grade IV teachers in teaching k to 12 curriculum in Sta. Barbara District I. Specifically, this study will answer the following questions: 1. What is the profile of the Grade...
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...A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE PHILIPPINES AND U.S.A. B.S. NURSING CURRICULUM In Partial Fulfilment of The Final requirements for the Subject CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT ________________________________________ Prepared and Submitted by: ROTSEN J. JAMBONGANA, RN CHARMAINE S. DACLES, RN ANA TESSA SOLIGUEN, RN STEPHANIE VARELA, RN TRACY SARMIENTO, RN MICHELLE CAñA, RN PEARL DOLALAS, RN ________________________________________ Respectfully Submitted to: MRS. MERLE SALVANI, MN Professor MASTER IN NURSING University of St. La Salle March 2011 Abstract At the undergraduate level, individual college and university administrations and faculties sometimes mandate core curricula, especially in the liberal arts. But because of increasing specialization and depth in the student's major field of study, a typical core curriculum in higher education mandates a far smaller proportion of a student's course work than a high school or elementary school core curriculum prescribes. In the United States, most control over education rests with the various state governments. Each state has different laws and objectives for education, but the states generally permit schools and colleges to operate with considerable independence and autonomy. As a result, American educational institutions can vary widely in the type and quality of their programs. To maintain consistent standards of education, the U.S. Department of Education officially recognizes private accrediting agencies...
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...Name: Tutor: Course: Date: Careers in Early Childhood Education. Part A For any learning curriculum to be efficient there is a need for proper execution of set goals and objectives. These objectives act as a guidelines and basis for the institution, the teachers, and the learners. Objectives articulate the supposed learning programs and the proposed outcome of the learning process this can be defined by the knowledge or the skills obtain during the course. Hence, instruction objectives put emphasis on the impact of the learning process to the kindergarten student, hence concentrating on the outcome of the learning process other than then learning process its self. It is undeniable there are many objectives that can be used for instructions, but I will majorly focus on the objectives that I find the most suitable in the formation of instructions. The main objectives that I believe that are most applicable to kindergarten pupils are creative curriculum, high scope and implementation of the tool of the mind. The high scope approach in kindergarten institutions is primarily a group of set practices and principles that should get observed by both the parents and the teachers. These laws act as a framework in the active learning process in any learning institution. The second objective of an education organization is achieving a creative curriculum. An innovative curriculum has a tendency of guiding and balancing the child and teachers in the learning process. It involves...
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...1.Discuss the learning environments? What are some of the issues that are related in the selection of a learning environment? What are several suggested environments for integrating Young children with special needs with typical functioning children? Learning environments are the setting in which young children with special needs receive services. There are a number of issues that are related to the selection of a learning environment; the different types of settings for providing intervention for young children, how the law influences the child’s placement for services, the integration if children with special needs with “typical” children, the role of the service coordinator, how various agencies coordinate their services, and the types of early intervention teams. There are several suggested environments for integrating young children, such as LRE (least restrictive environment), mainstream, inclusion, and natural environments (Lerner, J. W., Lowenthal, B., & Egan, R. 2003, p. 95). 2. Identify and describe the types of settings that are used to provide services to young children with disabilities. What are the several major laws that affect the provision of services for young children with special needs? Discuss the importance regarding services for young children with disabilities in the Laws Part B and Part C, which mandate the settings for learning. Young children with disabilities are provided services in different settings such as, home-based, center-based, and...
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...direct=true&db=trh&AN=17997021&site=ehost-live&scope=site This article has 20 relatively simple ways to incorporate diversity into the classroom. Some of the ideas were so simple they could be seamlessly integrated with other teaching that was already happening. Such as while learning about the traditional explorers from Spain, England, and Portugal; it would be a perfect time to learn about explorers from Africa, Mexico, or Norway. Another idea was to study games from other parts of the world and if the students seemed keen about one the games, the article suggested learning how to play the game and incorporate into the games already played. I chose this particular article over other articles for its simplicity and its approach to teaching diversity without actually drawing attention specifically to diversity education. Some of the other like minded articles were to complex for my simplemindedness and made it a point to teach diversity instead of incorporating it into existing learning. After reading the article I thought I could employ some of the ideas without much effort while playing with my grandchildren. • Barta, J., & Winn, T. (1996). Involving parents in creating anti-bias classrooms. Children Today, 24 (1), 28. Retrieved from http://0-search.ebscohost.com.lasiii.losrios.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=9606216252&site=ehost-live&scope=site This particular article focused on an anti-bias curriculum and approaches to implement the anti-bias curriculum. The article...
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...Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM This Chapter contains the background and purpose of the study, theoretical framework, conceptual framework, statement of the problem, hypothesis, scope and limitations of the study, significance of the study and definitions of terms. Background and Purpose of the Study Education is a field of study that deals with the methods and problems of teaching. In the Philippines, education is a public or state function. It is mandated by the constitution (1987), Article XIV, Section 1, which states that “the state shall protect and promote the rights of all citizens to quality education at all levels and shall take appropriate steps to make such education accessible to all”, and latter by Republic Act No. 6655 or the Free Secondary Education Act. Education in the Philippines is managed and regulated by the Department of Education, commonly referred to as the DepEd in the country. The Department of Education controls the Philippine education system, including the curriculum used in schools and the allocation of funds. It also regulates the construction of schools and other educational facilities and the recruitment of teachers and staff. From 1945 until 2011, the basic education system was composed of six years of elementary education starting at the age of 6, and four years of high school education starting at the age of 12.Further education was provided by technical or vocational schools, or in higher education institutions such as universities.It is...
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...CHAPTER I PROJECT BACKGROUND 1.1 INTRODUCTION During early years, stereo type approach was used such as logbooks, shortlists and even journals. Collecting data and retrieval was a bit difficult to due to manual operation without the aid of an electronic processing program. With modern programming, it will make logging; retrieving and saving are possible in just a snitch. All data will be registered and save electronically and manual basis and will be an alternative solution for black and white paper works. On this, readers as well students in the same field of interest will gain information about data system management and its purpose in making clerical work possible without extending much effort and also by using such system will enables the user/users to monitor establishments operation. No longer hours of paper work, have any more ribbons to change, simply a small technical known on how to operate a computer can make a difference in a fast growing trend of businesses as well taking the benefits of programming as a whole. Computers enable the efficient processing and storage of information. As of now many company use computer to make their works faster and lessen the unnecessary time they spend working towards something that they can be done using computer unlike in file processing system every transaction take a lot of time and give bounty of works resulting to waste of time and human energy. It’s not an easy task to manage a business you need to...
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